Spotted Turtle-Dove (an introduced species which I think we could do without).
John Campell
>I've always wondered what this bird was that I've heard since
>childhood growing up in Sydney. I've always imagined it to be an owl.
>
>To place you in the scene, this is a recording from my window in the
>suburbs of Melbourne. I recorded it on an overcast day, after a rainy
>night. It includes exciting sounds of the suburbs like the ubiquitous
>Indian myna, a cat's bell jingling, the neighbour driving off to work,
>a plane flying overhead, and powertools (no, sorry, it's not an lyrebird).
>
>It's recorded with an unmodified Zoom H4 with the built-in mics. The
>unit is connected to mains power. It's fairly noisy. I was going to
>de-noise it in Audacity 1.3.3 but the signal-to-noise here is a bit
>too high for it to work well without losing the body of the sound
>(Audacity 1.3.3-beta's new noise-removal has been very effective for
>removing noise from sound effects, speech and the like).
>
>Anyway. What's this bird? Any other comments/feedback also appreciated.
>
><http://pengo.org/audio/clip01.mp3>
>(length: 2:04 minutes. 3.33 MB)
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